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Happy Halloween everybody! I hope it's spooky and fun for all of you! Enjoy this last great day of Halloweentober! Personally, I'm carving one final jack-o-lantern tonight, watching Hocus Pocus, eating pumpkin pie and making some Barmbrack bread! I'll be counting down to next Halloweentober as of tomorrow... I read The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury. The first time I read this book, I didn't know what to make of it. But now, I get it. I think it's a beautiful book about life and death, and Halloween. I think I'd read it again one day.

It's amazing how, with each Halloween, we add another day - another month - of celebrations to remember and hold near and dear. This holiday gets more special with each passing year, I suppose, because I'm older and wiser and take something from this celebration each time, even as I rewatch the same movies or TV shows or decorate with the same decorations. But it's in the air of autumn itself, and the leaves as they change color and fall to the earth, and it's this invisible electric energy that courses through us all as we lean into Halloween and Fall. It is the most perfect time of year, even as the cold, dead of winter inexorably chases us down. It's sitting beside the fire and a flickering jack-o-lantern reading a book with some hot apple cider. And it's watching all the young kids trick or treating, some their first time, that makes this holiday just so special that it's become too much for just 10/31! It's so big that it could only become a month-long celebration. This is Halloweentober! And this is the last day. Happy Halloween again!

See you in eleven months.

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